David Gentleman's India - Softcover

Gentleman, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0340617403 ISBN 13: 9780340617403

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 1996

Synopsis

Exploring the land, architecture, and people of India, David Gentleman's travels have informed this collection of watercolors and reminiscences. The result is not a romantic or nostalgic vision, but a study of a country in part patient, traditional, and unchanging, but one also renewed and transformed by its energy, inventiveness, and ingenuity.

About this title

From Library Journal:

Gentleman, a British artist with a distinctive pen-and-wash style of watercolors (see, for instance, David Gentleman's Paris, St. Martin's, 1992) here covers the breadth of India from the Himalayas to the southern tip of the subcontinent to make a most appealing book. His bright and cheerful sketches, particularly those of Muhgal and Raj buildings, bring the country to life. He shows the India of the tourist, of course, but to his sketches he adds a substantial personal text describing his reactions, which swayed his moods "from fascination and elation to exhaustion, panic and despair." This is a lovely gift book choice, but it is suitable for public library collections as well.
Harold M. Otness, Southern Oregon State Coll. Lib., Ashland
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0340617403
• ISBN 13: 9780340617403
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192